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A 5 page paper which examines the homosexual tendencies in the characters Mrs. Dalloway in “Mrs. Dalloway” and Rachel Vinrace in “The Voyage Out” both by Virginia Woolf. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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work seems to cry out for explication regarding lesbian tendencies. As such many of her characters are seen as nothing more than reflections of Virginia Woolf herself. Two such characters
are Mrs. Dalloway from her novel of the same name, and Rachel Vinrace from her novel "The Voyage Out." The following paper examines these women and their possible tendencies for
homosexuality. Rachel In first examining the character of Rachel we turn to a critique offered by one individual who states, "One of the novels [The Voyage Out] strategies
is to make Rachel (as far as literature is concerned) a tabula rasa - a mental virgin on whom others are tempted to impress their tastes...people want to form her
and bring her out. Woolf on the other hand is interested in trying to get at what is formless and undecided in Rachel. Which is perhaps another way of saying
that Woolf is searching for her own style, trying to write her way past the accumulated meanings that literary tradition had loaded on to young women" (Virginia Woolf). In
this we have a young woman who is clearly at the mercy of a mans world. "Like the simultaneously monstrous and miraculous undersea creatures with whom she is aligned as
she begins her voyage into public identity, she cannot survive the pressure of being brought out and seems uncannily to die of the process of individuation necessary to establish her
in Terences gaze as a body with the angles and hollows of a young womans body not yet developed, but in no way distorted, and thus interesting and even lovable
(p. 227)" (Hite). This is a young woman who is not given a chance to even develop any individuality when it comes to her sexuality. If given room to grow
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